The Friedberg Genizah Project (FGP) is a joint venture with the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society (FJMS) in Toronto, Canada that was established to facilitate and rejuvenate research on the Cairo Genizah. The Genizah is a collection of over 200,000 fragmentary Jewish medieval texts discovered at the end of the 19th century which outline a 1,000-year continuum of Middle-Eastern history that were scattered across the world shortly after their discovery as the fragmented manuscripts were procured by private collectors and university libraries from Europe and North America. The FGP allows users to "piece together" various fragments of the Genizah in scattered collections by locating the manuscripts in nearly all collections around the world with Genizah holdings and then identifying, cataloging, transcribing, translating, digitizing, and publishing the manuscripts online for research use. With images, identifications, catalogs, metadata, transcriptions, translations and bibliographical references for users to explore, the FGP aims to computerize the entire corpus of Genizah manuscripts and Genizah-related material for researchers around the world. Access to the project requires free registration.
(Description adapted from information on various project websites)
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The Friedberg Genizah Project (FGP) is a joint venture with the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society (FJMS) in Toronto, Canada that was established to facilitate and rejuvenate research on the Cairo Genizah. The Genizah is a collection of over 200,000 fragmentary Jewish medieval texts discovered at the end of the 19th century which outline a 1,000-year continuum of Middle-Eastern history that were scattered across the world shortly after their discovery as the fragmented manuscripts were procured by private collectors and university libraries from Europe and North America. The FGP allows users to "piece together" various fragments of the Genizah in scattered collections by locating the manuscripts in nearly all collections around the world with Genizah holdings and then identifying, cataloging, transcribing, translating, digitizing, and publishing the manuscripts online for research use. With images, identifications, catalogs, metadata, transcriptions, translations and bibliographical references for users to explore, the FGP aims to computerize the entire corpus of Genizah manuscripts and Genizah-related material for researchers around the world. Access to the project requires free registration.
(Description adapted from information on various project websites)